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Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man - Reaction (First Time Listening)
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Here I react to Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man for the first time and share my quick thoughts on it.
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The song Belongs to Bob he wrote it.. I love it when young people like you who had discovered Bob Dylan go on even further. His catalog of songs almost seems endless. Keep digging you’ll find many more gems. A song you might like by Bob, “Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts”. A song that could’ve been made into a movie.
Dont recommend Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts to new Dylan listeners. That will scare them off.
@@fornostios8970 Ewan is on it when it comes to Dylan, he can handle it. He is someone that actually listens to the lyrics.
Well put
Lololol
It was pretty much made into a movie. Oceans 11
Actually, this is the US debut of this song as far as I know.
He played it once before in the UK prior to this performance and the album containing it would not be released until 1965.
Unfortunately, Bob leaves out a verse here - he usually does this when playing 'Mr Tambourine Man' live. But you'll hear it when you check out the official album version.
My favourite line in this song: 'And but for the sky there are no fences facing', comes from that disregarded verse.
Ewan, I just watched your First Listen of “It’s Alright Ma…” and am so glad you were amazed by it.Tambourine Man is the I can’t live without, it’s that perfect, it will be played at my funeral (I’m 78). Keep picking up albums, any one, and pick a track, any track, and you will be stunned by what he’s created, for 60 years. There are so many perfect songs, Nobel Laureate songs, you CANNOT be disappointed. Chimes of Freedom, Mississippi, Not Dark Yet, Jokerman. Changing of the Guard, etc., etc., etc. to infinity. Get ready for a lifetime ecstasy. AND, each song can be heard endlessly and will STILL be perfectly new with “Today’s” listening. Trust me. Bob.
I like how as the song goes along Dylan gets this little confident smile. You just know he is thinking "Yeah, this is going to blow them away" lol
Cocaine was probably a request for the old blues song "Cocaine" by The Reverend Gary Davis which Dylan sometimes performed live. He hadn't officially recorded it yet, but there was a bootleg record available containing a taped version of him singing it at someone's house in Minnesota.
Eric may have been a request for "Baby Let Me Follow You Down" which was on his first album and he wrote in the liner notes about it "I learned this song from Eric Von Schmidt on the green pastures of Harvard University "
Eric Clapton was in England and had been building a reputation there. He had joined the Yarbirds and they toured England in 1964 (the year this was recorded) but didn't start becoming well known outside of England until The Yardbirds first big hit (For Your Love) in early 1965.
Plus Clapton’s “Cocaine” (a cover of the 1976 J.J. Cake original) wasn’t even recorded until over a decade later.
Dylan wrote Tambourine man early in his career while he was still an aspiring artist. The folk style is musically simple in construction and the stories typically dealt with are themes commonly experienced within people's lives, so a strong sense of community is also projected within their songs. What was totally unique to Dylan's work was adopting a folk delivery to address elevated imaginative ideals beyond what was normally found within that style. Abstract thoughts, yearning for escape, aware the experience of his momentary amusement may only be fleeting yet are entirely welcome within the context of his existence and for the enduring inspiration it leaves behind. I imagine he yearned to also be able to deliver as much comfort to future audiences as he received from the experiences that influenced him.
Thank you for this. His Bobness has often altered lyrics with live versions. As bollykecks mentioned a couple of months ago, with this he skipped the penultimate verse: “Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun, it's not aimed at anyone. It's just escaping on the run, and but for the sky there are no fences facing. And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme to your tambourine in time, it's just a ragged clown behind; I wouldn't pay it any mind. It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing. Hey, Mr Tambourine Man…”
Just heard this one in London. This was the very moment that Dylan took over the world. Look again at Seeger and the faces in the crowd. They are all stunned by this amazing talent in a jingle jangle moment. Then he went on to do it for 58 years with no direction home.
I took my daughter to see Dylan live in NYC a couple months before the pandemic. I told her some day she will be able to say, 'I saw Dylan', to her grand children. He was great.
That's awesome!
The legendary Pete Seeger giving Bob his introduction on this one! Bob must have been jazzed about that.
There's a video of Chris Smither playing Visions of Johanna live, where he mentions hearing the song for the first time and thinking, "Oh no, now what do I do?" Bob wrote some of the most incredible lyrics of all time, and I can only imagine being a 'competing' songwriter at the time and trying to think of how you would keep up with him.
I'd like to hear Chris smither singing visions of Johanna. I think he is still around.
@@jimmaculate5 There's at least one live version of Chris doing that. Great intro to it, as well.
And to think that just a year later that same Pete Seeger would try to end Dylan’s electric set by taking an axe to the PA cables (or so the legend goes, anyway).
The LA based group the Byrds covered this soon after Bob released his album in the spring of 1965. The Byrds’ version was their first hit and a #1 radio hit that summer. And thus, the genre of Folk Rock was born.
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Bob writes all his songs (lyrics and music)! He collaborated with someone on a couple but HE wrote all of his songs
He recorded it in 1965 on album "Bringin It All Back Home".
You mentioned Eric Clapton. As a matter of fact, in 64 was the first release of The Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton... it’s called the Beano albumn, and features some of finest blues licks ever. By this time in the states, Dylan had revolutionized the folk movement. And turned to the folk rock movement...This song in particular, was covered by the American band “the Byrds, turned it into a #1 hit on the commercial top forty...
A song about the artistic process. Love it.
"To dance beneath the diamond sky,
With one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea,
Circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today
Until tomorrow."
So beautiful
Mr Tambourine Man was another of Dylan's extraordinary songs that was unlike *anything* anyone before him had ever done. The lyrics are utterly beautiful, and the tune is great. Bob's girlfriend Suze Rotolo said that she and Bob had a fight about something one night, and he went out late at night and walked the streets alone in Greenwich Village (New York City) for hours...and that's what a lot of the lines in the song are about. (I'm not sleepy, and there is no place I'm going to...I have no one to meet...and the ancient empty streets too dead for dreaming) He was trying to calm himself down and find a sense of peace within...and so he kept walking around town until he felt okay. The other thing that the song seems to be about is the sense of freedom and joy he got so often from playing music. "Mr Tambourine Man" may well have been Bruce Langhorn, who did a lot of studio work with Dylan, helping in recording his songs. Dylan had mentioned coming into the studio and seeing Langhorn with "the biggest tambourine I'd ever seen". At any rate, I think the song is very much about the sheer sense of joy and liberation that he found when playing music. It took him to the best mental/emotional place he could get to. Many hippies in the late 60's and early 70's theorized that the Tambourine Man was Dylan's drug dealer............I seriously doubt that. Those kids back then thought EVERY popular song with mysterious lyrics was about "drugs". They were obsessed with that idea! In this case, I think they were dead wrong. But it's a story you'll still hear from people, because it keeps getting repeated over and over again. Suze Rotolo did not think it had anything to do with drugs, and I expect she was right about that.
I am enjoying listening to your Dylan videos. I see this one every time I watch No Direction Home which is often. I normally stay away from the live albums but some people are so devoted they can recognize live ones even though the songs don't even sound alike.
Great video Ewan 🙏
This is Bob Dylan's song. Others have sung it in the past years. I get it that others want to 'sample' great songs but the least that they can do is to let others know who wrote it, sang it, and made it a hit in the first place. I'm glad that you've discovered Dylan and can enjoy his music and lyrics. I also like that you are reading his lyrics, which others don't do. I still look up lyrics to songs that I either don't know or have forgotten.
This song is from the 5th album by Bob Dylan. It's such an amazing album I mean it is so unbelievably incredible. We used to sit around in the cafeteria at school and go through these songs line by line.
Yes, he wrote this.
Thank you for doing this. Most reactors, having zero knowledge of the period, choose mediocre Dylan songs and then other reactors copy them again and again. Thanks for reacting to one of his greatest works. Very few have reacted to this before.
Listening to Bob singing that song his first time and yours... terrific ..
Some more recent Bob songs - sorta - that I really like are Cant Wait - Trying to get to Heaven, Not Dark Yet, Most of the Time, Senor
Very nicely done, Ewan.
A couple of early songs suggestions: BOB DYLAN'S DREAM
and SONG TO WOODY.
I won't guess at your age, but i recall a younger day when i first heard Dylan's newly released Blonde On Blonde album. The song VISIONS OF JOHANNA remains a favorite.
His melancholy ballads always resonate with me. DON'T THINK TWICE, IT'S ALRIGHT from early on, and later, IF YOU SEE HER stay with me. Best of luck to you in your journey. You've won my subscription with this. And if i may suggest another artist from the same time-jump for your listening wonderment: Joni Mitchell. Listen through her Blue album. She's right up there with Bob Dylan.
Peace -
I think his best is
' you got to serve somebody' yeah that's the one
The shout out was about drugs. Clapton was not known by many until 1965-ish "Yardbirds".
Dylan may have a limited voice, but nevertheless he’s an absolutely incredible singer.
And yes, he wrote it. Hunter S. Thompson’s favorite song.
If this was all Bob Dylan wrote he would have been hailed as a genius.
He has 100 songs that are mind blowing.
Blind Willie McTell
Catfish
I Shall Be Released
Forever Young
Visions of Johanna
A simple Twist of Fate
Black Diamond Bay
Just one I don't see requested much
Early folky Bob Dylan albums = self-titled Bab Dylan, Freewheeling Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changing, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home (one side acoustic, the other side electric). One of my faves off Bringing It... is "She Belongs to Me".
I’m 64 now, when I was a kid the song was about a tambourine Man. In my mid to late teens realize the song was about someone waiting for their drug dealer, Brilliant. The sensors didn’t realize what the song really about. 25 years sober, Love this song brings back a lot of good memories.
Dylan did write this and record it .
Bob Dylan is the most talented person ever!!!
Just my opinion.
Glad young generation is discovering him.
I love our young people of opening their minds. Dylan is a living encyclopedia.
Bro..
Check out..
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts..
Everyone is mindful. Before people couldn't get off their phone.
I weep with nostalgia, for a time that will never happen again.
For along, long time in his career he only sang songs he wrote, except for the "Self Portrait" period.
Be sure to check out The Byrds cover of this wonderful song. It was a huge hit for them. Great video of Dylan. Thanks Ewan! 👏
hope you can check out the byrds version of this song :)
The lyrics is the songs he wrote and and was critically important to him.... He didn't have a traditionally "nice" singing voice but i happen to love it!!!
Never seen this version before. Not for everyone of course. Great reaction as always my friend!
Thank you sir!
It was at the Newport Folk Festival.
Of course he wrote it ..
Mr. Tambourine man is particularly meaningful because the byrds had an enormous hit with this on the radio.
Clapton was a good guess..but...
J.J.Cale
Ewan, the reference to 'diamonds' is an acknowledgement of the Beatles 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds'
lucy in sky with diamonds was 1967,dylan did this in 1964
@@nealeturley7641 Larry Sloman recalls a story in ‘On the Road with Bob Dylan’ about Dylan and Lennon tripping in a London hotel when Lennon pointed up at the stars and said they were diamonds, apparently they both said they would write about the experience in their songs. I put two and two together, which Sloman wanted the reader to do I guess.
Ewan, If you want great interpretations of many of Bob’s songs log onto “CalicoSilver,” he digs VERY deeply into, and explains innumerable Bob songs. Bob
J J Cale also did 'Cocaine' (before Clapton).
Clapton did his version of Cocaine a number of years after this performance.
Hunter S. Thompson said this was his favorite song of all time.
I bet you would like Subterranean Homesick Blues.
At this point of performance so many were ''in the know'' about Dylan and many thinking ''What the frickin'".....lol The Byrds do great Electrified version .!
Lily Rosemary and the jack of hearts
Did you just say “was Clapton in the 60’s”. ! The Yardbirds, Bluesbreakers, CREAM! Blind Faith and Derek & The Dominos! In answer to your question YES!
Dylan's lyrical Kung Fu is strong. I love this song.
please listen to Idiot Wind. also on Blood on the Tracks
If I recall this was about pot.
Dylan wrote it. The Byrds had a huge hit with it, they made a career out of raiding his catalogue. Dylans version is more real, less poppy. The album version is slightly more polished than this live one, but he makes a good fist if it, it's not so different.
I believe the song is about his drug supplier, getting him little pills to release him from the stresses of life. The line To dance beneath the diamond sky, .... is my favourite.
Good call.
The song was about or for his studio guitarist whose name I’ve forgotten. That guitarist I believe had a damaged fretting hand but overcame it. He played the guitar on the first studio recording of “Tambourine Man”.
He is 23 here!
This is before Clapton. Now you need to listen to The Byrds' version!
No, Eric recorded in 64 with the BuesBreakers.
@@karlschwaber9568 ...Sorry, but Eric Clapton never recorded Mr. Tambourine Man with the Blues Breakers. Check out the track listing of that single LP. Moreover, the idea that Clapton would have recorded Mr. Tambourine Man BEFORE Dylan, the author of the song, is preposterous!
@@jeffreythaw3333 all I was saying that he was recording then but I was off by a year, it was 65
@@karlschwaber9568 ...Hi Karl...Ok, perhaps I misunderstood your response? Anyway, regarding Eric Clapton, yes, he recorded with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers in 1965. But what confuses me about your response has to do with Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and it's recorded release. As far as I know, EC didn't record that song until 1998. And if you look at the track listing for Mayall's Bluesbreakers album with EC, that song is nowhere to be found. But yes, EC was recording in '65. Dylan began his recording career in 1962, several years before EC sprang on the scene.
@@jeffreythaw3333 did not mean to confuse you, I confuse myself enough!
Bro one man..
No drums
No bass.
Like he is sitting on the couch ...
The studio version has more lyrics to it.
No Clapton yet. 1964 Newport folk Festival one year before he "went electric"
"Everybody looks the same " ?
That's his song
Dylan write it and recorded it.
intro by pete seegar
The more i listen to this song the more depressing (and soothing) it gets
They shouldn’t be blocking you. When you put something up for discussion or appraisal you should have a God given right for it to it heard. It’s hardly like you’re making billions out of illegal downloads and there’s no objectionable content. It’s there for entertainment and enlightenment. Things are so fucked up nowadays.
Anyway, nice choice. This is one of my lifelong favourite songs ... a search for transcendence in the face of life’s storms. And yes, he did write this song. Dylan’s songwriting prowess is amazing, having been credited with writing over 600 songs during the course of his career.
The byrds covered his songs. Easily searched he wrote the song
Not my favourite Dylan track, but it's Dylan, sooo...
There is too much chorus for my taste 😂
Bob Dylan doesn't do covers, just so you know. Love your reaction though
Thank you!
He has like 8 covers albums lol
He does and some of them are terrific.
Pancho and Lefty. Some Woody Guthrie. A very interesting Hallelujah. Some Everly Brothers
Bob Dylan song. It was considered an anthem of the 60's. Study Dylan....learn history of the movements of America.
Lyrics more profound have never been sung
Cocaine is a song...
Why do you keep covering up the screen with that 45RPM record jacket? That really ruins the experience you know!
Copyright!
Wow, no kidding! Good answer mate
This song is about an addict looking to score heroin from his drug dealer. The dealer is tambourine man.
It was actually inspired by Bruce Langhorne, another Greenwich Village folksinger who played tambourine on some of Dylan's early recordings. Dylan said that he played the largest tambourine he ever saw, and that inspired him to write the song. Bruce also played on the recording of Mr Tambourine, but not the tambourine. He played the counterpart melody on the second guitar.
Back in the day it wasn't unusual for people to say that any song they didn't get the meaning behind was about drugs, like Puff the Magic Dragon, a children's song about the hardship of growing older and loss of innocence, or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, which was nothing more that a description of a picture John Lennon's son Julian drew in nursery school mixed with lines inspired by the part of the book "Alice in Wonderland", where Alice is floating in a boat beneath the sky. The claim that the initials of the title referred to LSD is pretty ridiculous when the title was actually the title that Julian gave the drawing when he brought it home from school. The picture was supposed to be of his classmate Lucy O'Donnell.
For some strange reason reason people loved attributing drug meanings to all kinds of songs back then, which is strange since most of the songs that really were about drugs were generally pretty open and obvious about the subject matter.